List of historic schools of forestry

Heinrich von Cotta (1763-1844), "pioneer of scientific forestry"

This is a list of historic schools of forestry, by founding date. Also included is information about each school's location, founder(s), present status, and (where applicable) closing date. Many remain active.

1700s

• 1778 - A course of study in forestry formally added to the curriculum at the University of Giessen, Hesse-Darmstadt, Holy Roman Empire
• 1785 - Master school of forestry established by Heinrich von Cotta and his father,^[1] in Kleine Zillbach, near Wasungen, Thuringia
• 1787 or 1789 - Master school of forestry established at Hungen, Hesse, by Georg Ludwig Hartig; moved to Dillenburg, Hesse, 1797-1805; reestablished in Berlin; then, in 1830, moved to Eberswalde, about 30 km away (see below)^[2]
• 1790 - School of forestry established in Munich, Bavaria^[3]
• 1798 - Waldau Forest Institute (Forstlehranstalt zu Waldau) established by Friedrich Ludwig von Witzelben, in the Kassel district of Hesse, Germany; closed 1815

1800s

Saint Petersburg Forestry Academy

• 1800 - First formal training of foresters in Russia; 'forstmeister' course established at the Naval Cadet Corps Academy, Saint Petersburg^[4]
• 1803 - Royal Forestry School (or 'Practical Forestry School'), in Tsarskoye Selo (near Saint Petersburg), Russia; in 1811 moved to the imperial capital to become the Imperial Forestry Institute, later the S. M. Kirov Forestry Academy; today the Saint Petersburg State Forest Technical University.^[4][5][6]
• 1807 - Royal Bavarian Central Forestry Academy, Aschaffenburg, Bavaria; merged with the University of Munich in 1874^[7]

Former Academy of Mining and Forestry, Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia

• 1807 - Forestry Institute, Academy of Mining, Schemnitz, Austria-Hungary (now Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia; Heinrich David Wilckens, founder); became the Academy of Mining and Forestry, 1848 (Ignaz Schwarz Friedrich, founder); moved to Sopron, Hungary, in 1919; continues today as the University of West Hungary.^[8][9][10]
• 1811 - Royal Saxon Academy of Forestry, Tharandt, Saxony (Heinrich von Cotta, founder); now part of Dresden University of Technology, Germany
• 1811 - Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry, Stockholm (Karl XIV Johan, founder)
• 1813 - Imperial Academy of Forestry, at the Mariabrunn monastery, near Vienna, Austria^[3]
• 1824 - French National School of Forestry (École nationale des eaux et forêts, or 'Imperial Forestry School'), Nancy, France; today part of AgroParisTech

Eberswalde Forestry Academy

• 1830 - Royal Prussian Higher Forestry College established in Eberswalde; later affiliated as a faculty of the University of Berlin;^[2] the International Union of Forest Experiment Stations, predecessor of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations, was established there on August 17, 1892.^[11]
• 1844 - Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Montes, Madrid, Spain, continuing today in the Technical University of Madrid
• 1848 - School of forestry established at Turin, Italy^[3]
• 1860 - Royal Agriculture and Forestry College, Križevci, Croatia;^[12] today the College of Agriculture at Križevci^[13]
• 1868 - Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology, University of Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany;^[14] successor to the Royal Prussian Academy of Forestry at Münden
• 1870 - Forest Institute of Vallombrosa, Italy, established on the German model
• 1875 - Forestry program established at the University of Agriculture in Vienna, Austria, incorporating the former Imperial Academy of Forestry at Mariabrunn^[3]
• 1878 - Imperial Forest School, Dehradun, India (founded by Dietrich Brandis, for the British Imperial Forestry Service); today, incorporated into the Indian Forest Research Institute, Dehradun
  

  Sir William Schlich, Carl Schenck, and others, Saxony 1892
• 1885 - Royal Indian Engineering College (also known informally as the 'Cooper's Hill School of Forestry'), Surrey, England (William Schlich, founder); closed 1905
• 1897 - Forestry programs included in the Faculty of Agriculture, in the newly established Kyoto Imperial University, now Kyoto University, Japan
• 1898, September 1 - Biltmore Forest School, Asheville, North Carolina, USA (Carl A. Schenck, founder); closed 1913
• 1898, September 22 or 23 - New York State College of Forestry at Cornell, Ithaca, NY, USA (Bernhard Fernow, founding dean); closed June 1903
• 1898, October 20 - Academy of Forestry established at the University of Zagreb, Croatia

1900s

Gifford Pinchot and students at the Yale summer forestry camp, Milford, Pennsylvania, 1910

• 1900 - Yale School of Forestry, New Haven, Connecticut, USA (Gifford Pinchot, founder; Henry S. Graves, founding dean)
• 1902 - Agriculture and Forestry School, Shanxi Province, China
• 1903 - Forestry department, Imperial University of Peking, China
• 1903, May - Pennsylvania State Forest Academy, Mont Alto, PA (Joseph Rothrock, MD, founder; George Wirt, founding administrator); merged with the Pennsylvania State University to become Penn State Mont Alto
• 1904 - Forestry department, Zhili Higher Agricultural School, Hebei Province, China; in 1952, the department was separated into several universities, with most faculty going into the Beijing Forestry University
• 1905 - School of Forestry, Oxford University, England (Sir William Schlich, founder)
• 1906 - South African Forestry School, Tokai, Cape Town, South Africa (Joseph Storr Lister, founder)
• 1907 - Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto, Canada (Bernhard Fernow, founding dean)
• 1910, April 19 - Forest School established within the College of Agriculture at the University of the Philippines Los Baños,^[15] Royal F. Nash, founding "Officer-in-Charge"; today the College of Forestry and Natural Resources
• 1911 - New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA; (Louis Marshall, founder; William L. Bray, founding dean); now part of the State University of New York system
  

  Students from the Biltmore Forest School (USA), visiting Darmstadt, Germany, 1912
• 1912 - Madras Forest Academy, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, South India
• 1919 - Moscow Forest Engineering Institute, Russia's "first higher education institution for training forest engineers"; now Moscow State Forest University^[4]
• 1920 - Faculty of Forestry, University of Belgrade, Serbia. Studies in the field of forestry began in 1920 as the Department of Forestry at the Agricultural Faculty in Belgrade. The Faculty of Forestry became separate in 1949, the first independent forestry faculty in the former Yugoslavia.^[16][17]
• 1932, Saasveld College for Foresters, George, South Africa; now part of Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU)^[18]
• 1948, June 16 - Forestry Specialist School, Shanxi Province, China (established by the Communist Party)
• 1951 - University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, established its Faculty of Forestry. The school would absorb students from Hungary's Sopron School in 1957.^[19]
• 1952 - Beijing Forestry University, China, with faculty from Tsinghua University, Peking University, and the Beijing Agricultural University
• 1962 - Forestry school established in Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil, with support from the United Nations Development Program, the Food and Agriculture Organization, and the Government of Brazil; moved the next year to become a faculty of the Federal University of Paraná, in Curitiba.^[20]

See also

• List of forest research institutes
• List of forestry technical schools
• List of forestry universities and colleges
• List of historic journals of forestry
• Imperial Forestry Institute (disambiguation)

References

Notes

1. Shirley, Hardy L. "Professional Education in Forestry," Unasylva, No. 75. Accessed: May 8, 2012.
2. "About Eberswalde and IUFRO," forestinsects.org, August, 2010. Accessed: April 20, 2013.
3. Indian Council of Agricultural Research. 2002. "Curriculum and Syllabi for Master's Degree Programs in Forestry." New Delhi, India. Accessed: May 7, 2012.
4. Teplyakov, Victor K. 1994. "Forestry education in Russia," Forestry Chronicle 70(6): 700-704.
5. Saint Petersburg Encyclopedia Accessed: May 6, 2012.
6. "St. Petersburg State Forest Technical University." Accessed: April 18, 2013.
7. Barnard, Henry. 1870. "Technical instruction. Special report of the Commissioner of Education." United States House of Representatives, January 19. Accessed: May 7, 2012.
8. Slovakia in the UNESCO treasury Accessed: May 6, 2012.
9. Hungarian Wikipedia, "Wilckens Henrik Dávid" Accessed May 6, 2012
10. "The History of the University," University of West Hungary. Accessed: February 14, 2013.
11. Minutes of the "Meeting of the Association of German Forest Experiment Stations," Eberswalde, 1892. Accessed: April 20, 2013.
12. Husinec, Renata, and Dejan Marenčić. n.d. "Križevci College of Agriculture." Accessed: April 13, 2013.
13. College of Agriculture at Križevci. Accessed: April 13, 2013.
14. Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology, "Introduction" Accessed: May 6, 2012.
15. 100 Years, Chapters 1-3. University of the Philippines Los Banos. Accessed: April 21, 2013.
16. Faculty of Forestry, University of Belgrade. Accessed: January 22, 2014.
17. "Faculty of Forestry, Belgrade," EU HETIP: Improving Higher Education Infrastructure in Serbia. Accessed: January 22, 2014.
18. "History," Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University. Accessed: March 1, 2013.
19. "UBC Forestry History". University of British Columbia. Retrieved 12 May 2013.
20. "News of the world". Unasylva. FAO. 23 (3). 1969. Retrieved 2010-10-12.

Further reading

• Fernow, Bernard E. 1913. A brief history of forestry in Europe, the United States and other countries, 3d. ed. Toronto: Toronto University Press; and Washington, DC: American Forestry Association.
• Kuhlberg, Mark. 2009. One Hundred Rings and Counting: Forestry Education and Forestry in Toronto and Canada, 1907-2007. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
• Shirley, Hardy L. 1958. "Forestry education and research in Russia," Journal of Forestry 56, pp. 892–899.